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Atlus has recently discovered that some owners of the Demon’s Souls deluxe edition are experiencing a problem with their purchases. Apparently, some of the strategy guides that came with said edition aren’t in pristine condition. The covers are fading and wearing away, even when carefully and properly used and taken care of. Atlus has decided that it will not stand by idly while its fans are troubled, and is going to begin a strategy guide replacement program.

Atlus isn’t sure why some of the strategy guides’ covers are fading, and not all the strategy guides are showing the wear. If yours is one of the damaged ones, you’ll want to keep an eye on the Atlus U.S.A. Forums. Next week the company will post instructions for filing for a replacement strategy guide…

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Good news for fans of the Arc System Works fighter BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger that Aksys so thoughtfully brought to North America - its spreading to another system. BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger is being ported to the PSP as BlazBlue Portable. Arc Systems Works recently announced the new project and Famitsu confirms it.

BlazBlue Portable‘s going to be as similar to BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger as possible, going by 1Up’s report…

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Next week’s PlayStation Store update is going to feature the critically acclaimed Braid among its many new downloads. Jonathan Blow’s thought-provoking, beautiful and time-controlling action game is finally going to make its debut November 12, 2009. It’s going to cost you $14.99 if you decide to pick it up, which is what the XBox 360 version cost when it debuted back in 2008. While Number None handled the Xbox Live Arcade and Windows versions, Hothead Games was tasked with the Mac and PS3 ports.

Braid is a rather unique platformer. The star, Tim, is journeying through multiple environments and worlds in an attempt to save a princess. Players aren’t given many details of the storyline, and only know that Tim has to reach the princess and make up for a mistake he had made…

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Aardman Animations first Wallace & Gromit short, A Grand Day Out, debuted twenty years ago in 1989, and this is naturally a reason to celebrate. Telltale definitely is, as it is not only marking the occasion by releasing Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures on the Xbox 360 and donating to Child’s Play, it is also offering a free episode of the PC version of the game to anyone who visits the a special Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adventures website.

If you go to the website and provide your email address and a password, you can get the third episode in the series, Muzzled!, for free…

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If you check your mailboxes, you may find a Toys ‘R Us circular proclaiming that a massive sale is going to be held Friday, November 6, 2009 from 9am to 12am and Saturday, November 7, 2009 from 7am to 11pm. Looks like Toys ‘R Us is trying to kick off the holiday shopping season early. The ad features a number of good deals, and quite a few promising video game sales.

First, there are going to be two video game doorbuster offers that will only be available from 3pm to 12am on Friday and from 7am to 1pm on Saturday. First, there will be a buy one, get one 50% off sale running on all $19.99 video games in the store. The ad also states that there will be 400 $19.99 games to choose from. Second, four Wii peripherals will be on sale for 50% off the normal price. The ad doesn’t specifically state the names of said peripherals, but it looks like soft maracas to over the remote and nunchuk, Wii Fit mats, a Wii Fit accessory set and Wii remote and nunchuk skin covers.

There are also a few other sales that will be running throughout the whole sale period. For example, you’ll be able to purchase the following Wii games for 30% off the normal price…

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The Aldi ad for November 4-10, 2009 has a pretty nice Wii bundle deal, if you’re looking to pick one up for a friend or family member this holiday season. The custom bundle is billed as a Nintendo Wii System and Game Set and gives you the console, four games and a remote golf club peripheral for $249.99. The four games included are Big League Sports, Carnival Mini Golf, Game Party and Sonic and the Black Knight. Normally all these things separately would cost around $310.

While the ad states the special deals begin November 4, the Aldi website is also showing the same bundle and it states that the special deals begin November 1, 2009…

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Siliconera reported on an interesting leak at Amazon.ca - if you search for Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, a product listing pops up. Atlus hasn’t made any formal announcements yet, but it appears that the latest DS Shin Megami Tensei game could be arriving in North America on March 10, 2010. The listing also prices the game at $39.99.

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey came out October 8, 2009 in Japan. An unknown dimension has appeared over the South Pole, and you’re part of a team sent to investigate what is going on and stop it from spreading. You don Demonica suits, thats what the character on the cover is wearing, and head into unknown dungeons in this new dimension. It’s a standard, turn-based, RPG where you get to recruit demons as your allies. Dungeon crawling is conducted in a manner similar to Etrian Odyssey, as it offers a first person view. Players also able to make choices and decisions during the game that can lead to multiple endings. It got a Cero C rating in Japan, meaning it was recommended for ages 15 and up…

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Famitsu featured an interesting news story pertaining to the PSPgo today. The system launched November 1, 2009 in Japan, and Enterbrain already has the first day sales figures for Sony’s latest incarnation of the PSP. Brace yourself - only 28,275 PSPgos were sold at launch. A PSPgo costs ￥26,800 (~$296.17) in Japan.

That number isn’t all that impressive when you compare it to sales figures for other portable system incarnations. As AndriaSang pointed out, the DSi and PSP-3000 were bigger sellers. IGN reported that in the first two days of the DSi’s launch in Japan, 170,779 DSis were sold and AndriaSang reported 141,270 PSP-3000s were sold in the first four days…

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There’s a large assortment of downloadable games available today for Wii and DSi owners. There are three new WiiWare games, two Virtual Console classics and three DSiWare games. Not too bad.

Most of the games released seem geared towards younger gamers though. All three WiiWare games, “Aha! I Got It!” Escape Game, Carnival King and Family Card Games, and the DSiWare title Battle of the Giants: Dragons - Bronze Edition are clearly geared towards kids. Don’t let that turn you off though - take a thorough look at the descriptions and catalogs on your Wii and DSi before you make any decisions.

Gamertell’s Nintendo Download picks for the week are R-Type (Virtual Console) and Viking Invasion (DSiWare)...

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AtlusNet.jp updated recently with many new details about Persona 3 Portable, the PSP port/remake of Persona 3, which came out November 1, 2009. The most obvious and talked about addition is the ability to play as a heroine rather than the hero Minato from Persona 3. You can switch off playing as the hero and heroine in each playthrough, but still retain all of your character levels and items. The heroine also isn’t just a carbon copy of the hero, as her arcana card is revealed to be XXII (The World), but she still retains his ability to use almost every kind of weapon.

The other details in the news update offer a few new hints about the Persona 3 Portable Social Links. For example, there’s no need to worry if you’re not spending enough time around your Social Link friends. Even if you ignore them for a long time, the Social Link will not decay. If you make the wrong choices during events though, they still will. The update also confirms that Akihiko, Theodore and Shinji are Social Links for the heroine and it sounds like the dating feature is intact…

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